Timeline

May 29, 1970: Rick Mitchell is born.

May 8, 2003: Rick and his family move out of their old log house.

May 15, 2003: Katie Mitchell is born.

2017: PAL is created by Mark Bowman.

September 19, 2020: The last night before Katie leaves for college, she shows her family a video she prepared to say goodbye.

September 20–23, 2020: Katie records her trip across country with her family.

September 23, 2020: Bowman unveils a new line of servant robots, PAL Max, at PL20. After being declared obsolete by Bowman, PAL hijacks the PAL Max robots, which causes chaos in the building. An estimated 400 million robots depart from the building, leading a global assault on humanity. The robots capture their targets by: Traveling in low Earth orbit to increase speed, hunting in pairs of two, and using “human fun pods,” tractor beams, and jets in their feet to capture the humans.

Paris, France, Agra, India, Tokyo, Japan, and San Francisco, USA are just some of the targets in the uprising. Later on, PAL turns off the wifi, causing Toronto, Canada to fall into chaos. People in Rome, Italy willingly give themselves up to the robots after being promised free wifi. In Kansas, Katie and her family witness the robot uprising from Dinostop.

September 24, 2020: All 7.8 billion humans, save for the Mitchells, have been captured by the machines. The Mitchell family meet Eric and Deborahbot 5000, two malfunctioning robots who still take orders from humans. The group makes it to Mall of the Globe, a shopping mall in Eastern Colorado, and fight off a horde of sentient electronic devices, including a horde of Furbies.

September 25, 2020: If PAL had her way, this would be the day all mankind would be launched into space. However, the Mitchells eventually succeed in stopping the plot by destroying PAL. All humans are released from the ships.

Autumn, 2020: Katie goes to college and starts dating Jade Jordan.

After The Mitchells vs. the Machines: According to the webseries Ask a Dumb Robot, Linda went from being a first grade teacher to a Krav Maga instructor, Rick has retired from the furniture store and is building a cabin with Katie, and Aaron and Abbey frequently hang out at Natural History Museum.